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Stamp Act
The Stamp Act imposed a tax on documents and printed items such as wills, newspapers and playing cards. -
Sons Of Liberty
The Sons of Liberty were boston shopkeepers, artisans, and laborers to protest the new law. -
Declatory Act
Parliments full right "to bind the colonies and the people of America in all cases what so ever they be." -
Townshend Act
The Townshend Acts taxed goods that were imported into the colony from Britain: lead, glass, paint and paper -
Boston Massacre
A mob of colonists gathered in front of the boston customs house and taunted the British soilders standing guard. -
Tea Act
The Tea Act granted the bankrupt British East India Company the right to sell tea to the colnies free of the taxes colonial tea sellers had to pay. -
Intolerable Acts
The Intolerable Acts shut down the Boston Harbor coming up with the Quatering Act enforcing colonists to allow British soilders to live with them. Making General Thomas Gage the governor of Massachusettes. -
Ist Continental Congress
Ist Continental Congress fifty-six delegates met in philadelphia and drew up a declaration of colonial rights. The colonists had the right to their own affairs. If the British used force against the colonies, the coloines should fight back. -
Lexington and Concord
General Gage ordereed troops to march to Concord and seize colonial weapons. The colonists started with sixty men and soon increased to 3,000 to 4,000 men and defeated the British quickly. -
2nd Continental Congress
Congress agreed to recognize the colonial militia as the continental army and appointed George Washington commander. -
Common Sense
Thomas Paine theory was that British was a tryant. He worte a fifty page phamplet talking about a better society-one free from all tryanny, with equal social and economic opportunities for all. -
Battle of New York
The British sailed into the New York harbor with about 32,000 soilders and the Continental Army attempted to defend but the army was untrained and poorly equipped and soon retreated. -
Declaration of Independence
Life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness were the unalienable rights.
That the governments legitimate powers can come only from the consent of the governed. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was when Boston rebels disguised themselves as Native Americans boarderd three British teas ships dumping 18,000 pounds of tea on the Boston Harbor. -
Battle of Trenton
Washington risked everything one night in the face of a firce storm he led 2,400 men in small row boats for a surprise attack and defeated a garrison of Hessians. -
Battle of Saratoga
General Burgoyne was defeated by Washingotn gaining the french to sign an alliance with the Americans in Feburary of 1778. -
Battle of Yorktown
17,000 French and American troops surronded the Britiish on the Yorktown peninsula and began bombarding them day and night.
The British surrendered on October 19, 1781. -
Treaty of Paris
John Adams, John Jay of New York and Benjamin Franklin in 1783 the treaty confirmed U.S. independence and set boundaries of the new nation from the Atlantic to Mississsippi River and from Canada to the Florida border.
